New to wordpress, First post, beginner question

  • iconz113

    (@iconz113)


    16 years, 4 months ago

    Hello all, I just started with wordpress and have everything up and running. Ive created multiple pages for my site and I want to add my content to them. How would I make it so only the home page had a sidebar and other pages didnt? I only want the default page where my blog posts are to have the sidebars, and my about, contact, and archives pages not to have them. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great, thanks in advance.

    oh and one other thing, I have a widget called lifestream that I want to dedicate a whole page to, and not have it in a sidebar, is there a way to give a widget its own page and have the data in the center and not the sidebar?

    Just a general idea of how to customize different pages to look differently would be enough

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  • Micah Cooksey

    (@micahcooksey)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    To have the sidebar appear only on specific pages, you would use custom page templates. Depending on your knowledge of PHP, CSS and HTML, it may or may not be easy. The codex is a good resource.

    Then for the widget, you could also use a custom page template.

    If you want, you can email me and I could help you out: micah at captainpenguin dot com.

    philtyler

    (@philtyler)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    could you two keep us posted here?
    One day I would like to explore having different sidebars on different pages.

    Micah Cooksey

    (@micahcooksey)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Custom page templates are fairly easy. Here’s the codex article on the subject: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Pages#Page_Templates. You could also email me at the address mentioned above.

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